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Thomas Sowell was born in North Carolina and grew up in Harlem. As with many others in his neighborhood, Thomas Sowell left home early and did not finish high school. The next few years were difficult ones, but eventually he joined the Marine Corps and became a photographer in the Korean War. After leaving the […]

By Charles Murray Forward This study is one of a series commissioned by the American Enterprise Institute on trends on the level and distribution of U.S. wages, income, wealth, consumption and other measures of material welfare. The issues addressed in the series involve much more than dry statistics: they touch on fundamental aspirations of the […]